Book 1 - The Rose-Red Tyrant: Chapter 2; A Misappropriated Tart

The new beginning shows again as the next chapter title plays "Chapter - 2; A Misappropriated Tart''.

Yuu, Grim, and Ace had now headed to the lounge so that Ace could explain the collar and why he wants to switch to their dorm.

Grim starts off by saying "I'd recognize that collar anywhere. It's the same one that psycho stuck on me at orientation! What'd you do to get shackled with that?" Aces says annoyed "I ate a tart."

This confuses the other two as Yuu raises an eyebrow and thinks 'Is he being serious' but settles on asking "You…ate a tart?" Ace crosses his arms just as annoyed and confused as they were as he says "Yeah, that's it! That's all I did!" Yuu makes a motion to tell some more about what happened so

Ace explains "I was a little hungry, see, so I went down to the dorm kitchen and found some tarts in the fridge. The whole tarts! Big ones, too!"

It then goes into a flashback to tell the story. It starts in the Heartslabyul dorm kitchen as Ace wanders inside as he says "Man, I'm still tired from our little adventure. I missed dinner, too, and now I'm starving! Got anything for me, fridge?" He then opens it to reveal the three tarts he mentioned earlier. Ace then says "Whao, score! Tarts! These look amazing! And plenty to go around, too! No one would notice if I snagged one teeeeensy little slice, right? Right. Of course not." He then grabs a slice and takes a bite before saying "Mmph…?! SO good! I'm in pastry paradise right now!" The red haired boy, Riddle, from orientation walks into the kitchen as well, although now wearing something else. Although it was slightly blurry so it's hard to really make out right now, as he says "Of course they're good. Trey made them. His tarts are always exceptional." Ace is mainly out of it as he rants out "Yeah, but I mean… These are CRAZY good! Like, he could sell these at –" But then realizes who he's talking to and shouts "Wait, Housewarden?!" Riddle then entirely takes his prideful act as he says "That you would think to touch something of MINE… Well, I'm impressed with your audacity, at least. But the Queen of Heart's rule 89 is quite clear. 'Never eat a tart without the Queen's permission.' The theft of tarts is a serious crime!" He then uses the same spell he did on Grim but this time on Ace as he yells out "Off With Your Head!" and Ace screams "Bwaaaaah!" as the collar forms around his neck.

It then switches back to the present as Ace says "And…here I am." Grim and Yuu are silent as they share a glance of 'are you kidding me right now?' Grim then asks "So… The point is you're both terrible?" Ace defends himself "You don't think that it's insane for my magic to get sealed away for eating ONE slice of tart?! For a mage, that's like having your arms and legs bound and shackled! And there were three whole tarts! THREE! It's not like he could eat 'em all himself! C'mon, you KNOW this is messed up!"

Yuu nods slightly toward them as she says "It does seem a tad bit…extreme." Ace of course agrees as he says "Riiight?!" But Grim still stands against it as he says "Yeah, but… I mean, if there were three of 'em, they were probably for a party. Maybe it was someone's birthday or somethin'? Lookit that! I'm, like a master detective too!" Ace thinks for a second before saying "A birthday party, huh…?"

Yuu thinks to herself 'That would explain it.' As she asks Ace "Did you even apologize?"

But Ace throws his head back as he says "Man… I thought you'd be more sympathetic! I'm a victim of the housewarden's tyranny here!"

But Yuu only tells him "He may have been a little extreme but…" And Grim shouts out before she's able to finish saying anything else even if there was nothing "But you stole food! That ain't cool!" Yuu looks at Grim for a second before staring at Ace as she tells him "Tomorrow, go and apologize." while thinking 'He should forgive you'. Grim then once again puts a pin against Ace as he says "You don't go messin' with another man's meal… Hey, wait a minute!"

Grim then thinks back to Crowley's promises of tuna as he shouts out "I just realized I never jot those cans of tuna the headmage promised me!" Both humans share a strange look towards Grim before ignoring what he said.

Ace then sighs as he says "All right, all right. Fine. I get that I should apologize. But you're coming with me, Yuu. This was your idea, after all." Yuu shrugs as she says "Fair enough." with a giggle at the end.

Ace then asks "Anyway, you got a place for me to crash tonight?" Grim groans as he says "You were serious about that? Outside of the bedroom me and Yuu use, this entire dump is buried under a foot of dust. So if you wanna crash, you better start cleanin'!" Ace then complains "Dud, no way! I hate cleaning!"

Ace then makes his best attempt at puppy dog eyes as he asks Yuu "Just let me stay with you, Yuu. I'm real slim. I won't take up much space!" Yuu just puts on an evil smile as she says to Ace "Allow me to introduce you to the lounge sofa." While thinking 'You can wish boy but not happening'

Ace then drops the act as he says "Tch. You're about as flexible as a brick. Well, fine. Sofa it is. Night!" He then grumbley goes to lay on one of the lounge sofas.

It then does a time skip to the next morning as they hear banging on the door.

Ace gets up off the sofa as he holds his head and says "Duuude… Who is pounding on the door at this hour?!" The banging starts to make dust fly everywhere which makes Ace start to cough up a storm as he shouts "Bleah! Every hit kicks up a dust storm! I'm coming, I'm coming!"

Ace then rushes to the front door and opens it, seeing the one and only Deuce. Deuce says "I figured I'd find you here." as the door opens and he sees Ace there.

Ace then gains a scary but somewhat relieved expression as he says "Ugh. Deuce…" But Deuce ignores it as he asks "So, you ate the housewarden's tart. You really are an idiot, Ace." Ace then has an offended expression grace his face as he shouts out "Oh, shut up! Like you're one to talk!"

Before he asks, kinda embarrassed "Anyway, uh…Is he still mad?" mumbling the last bit.

Deuce hears the question and doesn't make fun of Ace as he answers "Not at all. Maybe a touch irritated, if anything. A few of our dormmates overslept this morning… But only three of 'em got your treatment." But Ace complains "You call that 'not at all' mad?! Sounds like he's still on the rampage, to me."

Yuu and Grim finally arrived at the entrance hall, and let out a sigh of relief of it being nothing important but also annoyed at Deuce for how he was banging on the door, which leaves an embarrassed Deuce and slightly smug Ace.

It then switches to when the gang's on Main Street and are walking their way to school.

Grim looks smug as he's calling out "Move it! Outta the way! Night Raven College student comin' through!" As if they weren't as well. He then notices Ace staring at him, not noticing he was holding a laugh as he confidently goes up to Ace and says "Oh? Did my collar catch your eye? It's way better than the one you're stuck with! You know, the one that makes it so you can't use magic?" He then teases Ace back for how he acted when they first met "But hey, this school could always use another janitor!" Before bursting out laughing.

Yuu shakes her head at Grim and thinks 'Way to take the high road, Grim.' before noticing the sulking Ace and she says to him "I think he's suffered enough, Grim."

Ace growls out "Grrrrr! Trust me Grim, when I get my magic back, your hide is first up on the chopping block!" at the meaningfully rude/mean teasing.

Deuce sighs as he states "Didn't the headmage JUST tell you yesterday, no more incidents?" although phrasing it like a question. Then says "Regardless, you're not going to be able to participate in class if you can't use magic. So why not just apologize to the housewarden? It's a small price to pay for having the collar removed." Ace groans as he says "Aaaaargh! I hate this so! SO! Much!"

Grim looks around before saying "Hmm. Ya know, we do still have some time to kill before class starts. And I am kinda curious about the other dorms. Guess I'll go along and scope out the place while you make with the groveling." Ace then grips his head as he shouts "Since when did this become a field trip?!"

Causing a few other student stares as Yuu and Deuce look away from Ace.

The screen then fades to black as "To be continued" appears before it goes fully black and turns off.